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Aug 19, 2013
Fish Tissue Targets for PCB TMDLs: What is the Real Risk? An Example from the Greater Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor Waters TMDL
Authors: E. Darby [email protected], M. Arms [email protected], A. Jirik [email protected], K. Curtis [email protected], S. Anghera [email protected], D. Glaser [email protected], W. Hovel [email protected], and Y. Poon [email protected]Author Affiliations
Publication: Ports 2013: Success through Diversification
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Total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) are established to attain and maintain applicable Water Quality Standards (WQS) for impaired water bodies. Numeric polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) criterion in a TMDL for an impaired water body due to fish tissue advisories may be a sediment, water column, or fish tissue-based target. TMDLs should provide documentation of the approach used to establish a linkage between numeric PCB targets and PCB sources (USEPA 2011a). The Final Dominguez Channel and Greater Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor Waters Toxic Pollutants Total Maximum Daily Load (USEPA 2011b) acknowledges that the relationship between sediment concentrations and fish tissue burden is not well understood in the harbor waters. Therefore, the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are leading multiple efforts in developing special studies and predictive tools to identify the linkages prior to the TMDL reopener in 2016.
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Anchor QEA; 901 S. Mopac Barton Oaks Plaza IV, Suite 280, Austin, TX 78746. E-mail: [email protected]
Port of Long Beach, 925 Harbor Plaza, Long Beach, CA 90802. E-mail: [email protected]
Port of Los Angeles. E-mail: [email protected]
Port of Los Angeles. E-mail: [email protected]
Anchor QEA; 26300 La Alameda, Suite 240, Mission Viejo, CA 92691. E-mail: [email protected]
Anchor QEA; 305 W. Grand Ave., Suite 240, Montvale, NJ 07645. E-mail: [email protected]
Anchor QEA; 26300 La Alameda, Suite 240, Mission Viejo, CA 92691. E-mail: [email protected]
Everest Consultants International, Inc.; 444 West Ocean Blvd., Suite 1104, Long Beach, CA 90802. E-mail: [email protected]
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